| Monday, March 5 | |
| 12:30 PM | East European Lecture "The Historic Architecture of Siberia: Problems of Preservation," William Brumfield (Professor of Slavic Studies, Tulane University). Thomson 317. Sponsored by Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies; Washington State University. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| 3:30 PM | Scandinavian Studies Lecture "Experts, Parents and Children: 1930-1960: A Scandinavian Debate with U.S. Inspiration,"Dr. Ning de Coninck-Smith (Associate Professor Contemporary Cultural Studies, Southern Denmark University, Odense Campus). Smith Hall, room 405. Dr. de Coninck-Smith is a 2000-2001 Fulbright Professor in the Scandinavian Department at University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Department of Scandinavian Studies. For more information please contact Lisa Ekdahl at 543-0645. |
| 4:00 PM | Classics Lecture "Love in Copenhagen: Thorvaldsen's Museum," John Henderson (King's College, Cambridge). Denny 216. This lecture, informally subtitled 'On bringing it all back home from neo-classical Rome', will explore episodes in the modern reception and appropriation of classicism in art and culture. John Henderson is at once the most influential and most controversial reader of ancient Roman texts in his generation. Many of his ground-breaking articles on Roman literature and culture are collected in Fighting for Rome (Cambridge 1998) and Writing Down Rome (Oxford 1999). With Mary Beard he is co-author of Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 1995), and of Classical Art: from Greece to Rome, forthcoming this month in the 'Oxford History of Art' series. Dr Henderson is the Classics graduate students' invited speaker for 2000-01. Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Classics Department. For more information please call 543-2266. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Contemporary Group: Ensemble Concert - Celebrating UW Composers, Part 1. Meany Theater. Featuring works by emeritus and current UW School of Music composition faculty. Joël François Durand, director. Program: William O. Smith: Cleopatra's Garden (world premiere); William Bergsma: Four Songs; Ken Benshoof: in Shadow, light; James Beale: Wind Quintet; Diane Thome: Like a seated swan; John Verrall: Sonata. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Percussion Ensemble: Ensemble Concert. Meany Studio. Program: David Reeves: L'Image d'Eau; Lou Harrison: Fifth Symphony for Percussion Quartet; John Cage: Experiences I; John Beck: Overture for Percussion Ensemble; Jared Spears: Two Frescoes for Percussion Ensemble; Justin Melland: Unraveling. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. Tom Collier, director. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, March 6 | |
| 2:30 PM | Scandinavian Studies Lecture "The EU: How to Join by Refusing Membership," Dr. Mogens Rudiger (Associate Professor, Department of History, Aalborg University, Denmark). Smith Hall room 304. Dr. Rudiger, a European Union specialist,is the author of a recent, highly acclaimed biography on Erling Foss, one of the founding fathers of the WWII Danish resistance movement. Sponsored by the Department of Scandinavian Studies. For more information please contact Lisa Ekdahl at 543-0645. |
| 3:00 PM | Classics Lecture "The Way We Were: R.G. Austin, In Caelianam," John Henderson (King's College, Cambridge). Denny 210. SEE MARCH 5 LISTING FOR FURTHER DETAILS. Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Classics Department. For more information please call 543-2266. |
| 3:30 PM | **ETHNIC STUDIES/HUMANTIES DISCUSSION*
Prof. Stephen Sumida (Department of American Ethnic Studies) will discuss his forthcoming edited volume, _A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature_. Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-3920. |
| 6:00 PM | Walker-Ames Lecture "Research, Policy, Industry: A Merger for the Future," Shirley Jackson (President, Rensselaer Polytechnis Institute). Kane Hall 210. Sponsored by the Graduate School and the Departments of Physics and Women Studies. Admission complimentary. For more information please visit http://grad.washington.edu. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Opening Andy Zapata / BFA Show. The Ceramics Gallery (4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive). The Ceramics Gallery presents Andy Zapata/BFA Show through March 10, 2001. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 10am to 4pm, or by appt. For more information, please call 206.543.0178. |
| 6:00 PM | Scandinavian Studies Lecture "Danger is looming here: Moral Panic and Urban Child and Youth Culture in Denmark, 1890-1914," Dr. Ning de Coninck-Smith (Associate Professor Contemporary Cultural Studies, Southern Denmark University, Odense Campus). Loew 106. Dr. de Coninck-Smith is a 2000-2001 Fulbright Professor in the Scandinavian Department at University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Department of Scandinavian Studies. For more information please contact Lisa Ekdahl at 543-0645. |
| 7:00 PM | **FILM & PANEL** "States of Fear," a film and panel discussion. Kane Hall 220. Mary Raftery (Writer, Producer, and Director of "States of Fear"), Roger Simpson (Professor of Communications and Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, UW), and B.J. Bullert (Seattle documentary film producer and author of "Public Television: Politics and the Battle Over Documentary Film") will speak following a showing of the film. "States of Fear," a three-part documentary series first broadcast in 1999, tells the extraordinary story of Ireland's industrial schools, a vast system in which tens of thousands of Irish children were imprisoned during most of the 20th century. Called orphanages, the schools were run by Catholic religious orders but funded by the State. Through the experiences of some who grew up in these institutions, the documentary unfolds an appalling catalogue of sexual and physical abuse suffered by many of the children within this system. Using previously uncovered records, it also reveals the collusion and cover-up which deeply convulsed Irish Society when the documentary was shown, and forced the Irish Government to make an unprecented public apology on behalf of the State to the victims of this system. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-3920. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Lecture Wolfgang Weingart Lecture. 210 Kane Hall. Internationally renowned typographer and educator, Wolfgang Weingart from Basel, Switzerland will give his highly acclaimed presentation using video beamer in. A reception and exhibition of Weingart's work at the Jacob Lawrece Gallery will immediately follow the presentation. For more information please call the School of Art at 543-0970. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Symphonic Band/Concert Band/Wind Ensemble: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theater. The program includes School of Music faculty member Michael Brockman playing Maslanka's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble. (J. Bradley McDavid, Conny Chen & Timothy Salzman, directors). Program: Maslanka: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble; Husa: Smetana Fanfare; Williams: The Patriots; Copland/Beeler: Lincoln Portrait; Grainger: Walking Tune; Van der Roost: Rikudim. $5 Student & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Michael Cabe, piano & Victor Twu, guitar: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium. Jazz combos recital. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. Musical adaptation by Scott Hafso & Darcy Phillips. This world premiere musical based on John Partrick Shanley’s cult classic film "Joe Versus the Volcano" follows Joe Banks, the ultimate loser. Sick from the buzzing florescent lights and the gray dullness of his life, Joe Banks learns that he has a terminal “Brain Cloud.” According to his doctor, he’ll feel great for six months and then suddenly die. Just after his diagnosis, a rich man offers Joe the chance of a lifetime: Joe can live in high style for a bit and then he must jump into a volcano as a human sacrifice. Joe agrees to the deal, but on his way to the volcano, he falls in love with the rich man’s daughter. A modern comic fairy tale by the Oscar winning writer of the screenplay "Moonstruck." For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 7:30 PM | **POETRY READING Marie Ponsot, who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1998 book, _The Bird Catcher_, will give her first Seattle reading. UW Faculty Club. Introduction by poet and publisher Samuel Green. Free admission. Sponsored by the Counterbalance Poetry and Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Please cal 206-543-0405 for more information. |
| Wednesday, March 7 | |
| 12:30 PM | Art Seminar "Tactile Technology: A Brief History of Jacquard's Loom," Lou Cabeen (UW). Reed Collection Study Center, Henry Art Gallery. Cabeen will look at how and why Joseph Marie Jacquard developed the information storage system in 1804 that revolutionized textile production. Illustrated with slides and objects from the collection. Free with admission. For more information please call the Henry Art Gallery at 543-2281. |
| 1:30 PM | Creative Writing Lecture "Publishing in the Broad World," Literary agent Elizabeth Wales speaks and answers questions about publishing beyond academia. HUB Meeting Room, 310. Sponsored by Watermark and the Creative Writing Program. For more information please contact Dan Newman at dnewman@u.washington.edu. |
| 6:00 PM | Film "Prisoner of the Mountains" (Sergei Bodrov, Russia, 1996). Mary Gates Hall 271. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Jazz Combos: Ensemble Concert. Brechemin Auditorium. Marc Seales, director. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 6 LISTING. |
| Thursday, March 8 | |
| 1:30 PM | **MEDIEVAL STUDIES/LIT. LECTURE** "The Motif of Incest in Medieval Literature," Dr. Jutta Eming (Free University of Berlin). Smith Hall 311. Dr. Eming's lecture on the Incest Motif will take ideas of Freud and Levi-Strauss as the point of departure to elucidate an ambiguous theory of incest in various medieval romances. The constellations of characters and patterns of representation show the linking of incest with the problem of maintaining power and authority. Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Studies, the Medieval and Renaissance Research Group, and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-7542. |
| 3:00 PM | Art Lecture Christopher Ransom: VCD Candidate Lecture. Art 317. Christopher Ransom, a final candidate for the Visual Communication Design faculty position, will be giving a public lecutre. Faculty and students are particularly encouraged to attend. For more information, please call 206.543.0970. |
| 7:00 PM | Reading Castalia. Parrington Commons. Students from the MFA program in Creative Writing read from their fiction and poetry. Admission complimentary. For more information please contact rhoogs@u.washington.edu. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Dialogue Dorothee Ostmeier (UW, Germanics) explores the work of Wolfgang Laib. Henry Art Gallery. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Keyboard Debut Series: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 6 LISTING. |
| 7:30 PM | **WOMEN'S STUDIES/DRAMA PERFORMANCE* "Women Can't Wait," A one-woman show in honor of International Women's Day, starring Sarah Jones. HUB Auditorium. "Women Can't Wait" is a one-woman show written and acted by Sarah Jones. Ms. Jones has been featured in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Spike Lee's recent film "Bamboozled." "Ms. Jones uses only one prop, a diaphanous shawl, to portray eight different women from around the world, all living under laws that violate their human rights," --New York Times. Admission is free; tickets are available at the Women's Center, Cunningham Hall and at the HUB ticket office. Sponsored by the UW Women's Center in collaboration with the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Center for Women in Science, College of Engineering, Equal Opportunity Office, Jackson School of International Studies, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, School of Social Work, Department of Social Sciences, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Seattle Chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, the Center for Women and Democracy, the ASUW Women's Action Commission and the ASUW Black Student Commission. For more information please contact the UW Women's Center at 685-1090. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Trio Fontenay. Meany Theatre. Since its formation in 1980, the German-based Trio Fontenay has been lavishly praised for its technical excellence, richness of tone and depth of interpretive imagination. Inspired by its early study with the Amadeus Quartet, the ensemble brings a relaxed musicianship, measured grandeur and superior proportional instinct to a deiverse repertoire of works. Program: Jean Francaix: Piano Trio (1986); Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 110; Sergei Rachmaninoff: Trio élegiaque in D minor, Op. 9. Tickets: $30. Please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| Friday, March 9 | |
| 1:30 PM | Film "Under the Gun: Democracy in Guatemala," 1987, 16mm., 40 min. Kane 19. Shows the development of democracy in Guatemala after years of military domination and warfare. Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program. For more information please call 685-3435. |
| 1:30 PM | English/Rhetoric Lecture "Linguistics and Postmodernism: Continuing the Conversation," Sandy Silberstein (Professor of English, University of Washington). Loew 113. At a recent Solomon Katz lecture, Fritz Newmeyer sought to explain "Why Linguists Aren't Postmodernists." Taking issue with that premise, this colloquium uses texts surrounding the beginning of the Gulf War to explore the utility of postmodernism/poststructuralism for Applied Linguistics. Refreshments will be provided.Sponsored by The Language and Rhetoric/Language Use and Acquisition Colloquium. For more information, contact Kim Emmons (kemmons@u.washington.edu) |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Assaultive Expression and Harm: The Case of Pornography," Tracy Edwards (University of Michigan). Savery 249. Sponsored by the Philosophy Department. For more information please call 543-5855. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Combined Choruses & Symphony: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theater. Program: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D (Op. 123), Abraham Kaplan, conductor. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 6 LISTING. |
| Saturday, March 10 | |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Student Chamber Ensembles: Ensemble Concert. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 2:00 PM | Art Tour Exhibition guide tour. Lower lobby, Henry Art Gallery. Guides trained in the special exhibitions and collections give regularly scheduled free tours on second Saturdays and third Thursdays of the month. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 7:00 PM | Concert and Lecture The renowned Barcelona-based ensemble Hesperion XXI will recreate the sounds of 13th century Spain in their program, "Paradise Lost, Roots and Memory of the Sephardic Jews." Town Hall, 8th and Seneca. The concert will be preceded by a lecture from Samuel G. Armistead. Free, call 206-325-7066 for tickets. Sponsored by the Early Music Guild, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the UW Sephardic Studies Program. For more information please call 206-325-7066. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Viola Studio Recital: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 6 LISTING. |
| Sunday, March 11 | |
| 1:00 PM 5:15 PM | **SEPHARDIC CONFERENCE** The conference will examine the history of the Sephardic Jews, with special focus on the thirteenth century as well as the state of the Sephardic community today in Seattle. Town Hall, 8th and Seneca. Four lectures and a panel discussion will be held during this session. Free. Sponsored by the Early Music Guild, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the UW Sephardic Studies Program. For more information please call 206-325-7066. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Barry Lieberman & Friends: Faculty Recital. Brechemin Auditorium. Chamber music featuring violinists Kelly Farris, concertmaster of the Spokane Symphony, and Maria Larionoff. Program: Mozart: Symphonie Concertante; Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence. $8 Students & Seniors; $10 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 6 LISTING. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Patricia Wagner, voice: Senior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |